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  • From: Patrick McKown <identi1956@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] [Fwd: Re: [SANET-MG] Inquiry on CCD and native bees]
  • Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:22:22 -0700 (PDT)

There are ways to increase bumble bee habitats and nesting sites. Pesticides
can have repellent
properties that are recognizable by a fraction of a population. Avoidance of
contamination is then
possible. Strains will develop that will habitually avoid areas of ritual
pesticide applications.
These other habitats will not be frequented by people, so people will be
witnessing a decrease in
bee populations in areas that they contaminate. Scientific surveys in the
field if referenced
generally are not reliable. Reason being is convenience. Most professors are
not field people.
Primarily because they are physically unfit as a group, which leads to less
inquiry encounters in
the field. It is also less prestigious to be a field biologist. Better to
have a lab under your
wing. Relying on younger counter parts is also not useful because they now
days lack patience due
to less hands on experience demonstrating field attitudes, thinking and
techniques. You have a
scientific community that relies on a very few field people to make
generalizations about what's
happening. Your going to see variability in animal and plant populations,
especially associated
with faster climatic changes that are occurring. I was listening to a fellow
who hailed from
Poland a few weeks ago say that when he went home back in 02 to visit, that
it was very humid,
uncharacteristically for Poland. He said Poland was always been much drier
and now it is more like
St. Louis. I thought that was an interesting observation.

People once they are titled by society and especially under a very narrow
purview are subject to
obsolesce. They are more like cage birds.


Pat McKown


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